UNCC shooting suspect gave up attack after being tackled by Riley Howell

CHARLOTTE — The man charged with fatally shooting two students and wounding four others in a North Carolina university classroom told police he'd planned the attack for months but gave up the assault after he was tackled and knocked to the floor, police detectives said.

Riley Howell, 21, of Waynesville, who was killed in the attack, tackled the gunman and saved lives of other students, police had said.

In newly unsealed search warrants reviewed Tuesday, former student Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, told interrogators he entered the UNC Charlotte building on April 30 intending to shoot people, then paused to load his gun in a bathroom near the lecture hall before attacking. He was dressed in black and carried a black bag containing several loaded bullet magazines, one warrant said.

In statements seeking court permission to access Terrell's cellphone and laptop, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg detective described Terrell as saying he used his phone to record a video of the area where the shooting happened. It's not clear when Terrell would have recorded the video or what it shows.

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